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Wings over Gotham by icarus_chained
Fandom Aquaman (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Green Lantern - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Martian Manhunter (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Wonder Woman - All Media Types
05 Sep 2025
Summary
“Eighteen years ago, an earthquake ripped through Gotham City, and in the aftermath, instead of helping, the US government sealed the city under a ‘quarantine’ and left them to die. Two years later, when signs of life and even civilisation were still detectable inside the shattered city, the government sent the military in to reclaim and rehabilitate Gotham. Gotham has not forgotten, and they have not forgiven either.”
An AU where an altered version of No Man’s Land happened while Bruce was in his late teens/early twenties, and Batman was born in the hellish crucible of a trapped city that was left for dead and then violently retaken. Gotham may pretend to run by mainlander rules for the sake of those who would have died otherwise, but under the surface, Bruce, Jim, Leslie, Ivy and Oswald and their pack keep their own council, and look with jaundiced eyes on the mainland.
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